Justice, according to St. Thomas, is the perpetual and constant will to render each one his right. Distributive justice, commutative justice, potential parts, quasi-integral parts, debt, cannibalism—in this episode, the editors cover it all.

Bibliography

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae qq. 58, 61, 79, 80
Plato, The Republic, especially Book I
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Carl Hoffman, Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
The Paraphasic, “Notes on the Internet as a Social Space“
The Paraphasic, “A Rumination on the Foundation of Civil Society“

Music: “An die Musik“, by Franz Schubert, performed by Matthias Goerne (baritone) and Helmut Deutsch (piano).

Header Image: Circles in a Circle (1923), by Wassily Kandinsky (detail).

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